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Environment

Scotland

7 Years Ranked

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Provided by Laura Tainsh

UK

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Partner in the environmental, waste and renewables team. Deals with a wide range of environmental and energy issues and commercial projects covering all mediums (water, emissions, waste and resources). Specialism and substantial experience in environmental law, particularly waste and resource management, consenting, pollution and contamination and enforcement action. She has a varied practice with a wide-ranging client base including developers, landowners, investors, consultants and funders. She deals with due diligence, bespoke contractual drafting, permitting and consenting issues, waste and contaminated land, legislative interpretation, environmental taxes and environmental disputes (including regulator investigations, appeals, tribunals, judicial review and court actions).

Career

Trained Maclay Murray & Spens LLP, 2002-04; commercial property and projects assistant, Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP 2004-10; environmental waste and renewables associate 2010-14; environmental waste and renewables partner 2014-date. Articles regularly published in Scottish Planning and Environmental Law, Materials Recycling World and a range of other publications; LLM Dissertation on the Zero Waste Plan in Scotland (with particular emphasis on the role of energy from waste as part of the regime in Scotland). Published in the Lawtext Environmental Liability in 2010.

Professional Memberships

Chartered Institution of Wastes Management Scottish Centre Council and National Scientific & Tech Committee; UKELA Scottish Committee; Law Society of Scotland Environmental Law Committee; CRNS Board Member; Accredited as an Environmental Law Specialist by the Law Society of Scotland.

Personal

Education: Hutchesons’ Grammar School; University of Glasgow (2001); University of Dundee (2010, Masters Degree).

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Environment - Scotland
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Band 2

Laura Tainsh is the lead partner in Davidson Chalmers Stewart's environment and waste team, and dedicates much of her time to advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters relating to the waste sector. She is one of the few Law Society of Scotland Accredited Specialists in Environmental Law.

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